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Former Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice and current Disney star Ryan McCartan have been tapped to star in Fox's upcoming Rocky Horror Picture Show remake, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The two will portray Janet and Brad, respectively, in roles made famous by Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick in the 1975 cult classic.

Penny Dreadful alum Reeve Carney has signed on as Riff-Raff, and singer Staz Nair will portray Rocky Horror, originally played by the creator of The Rocky Horror Show, Richard O'Brien (The Crystal Maze), and Peter Hinwood, respectively.

The quartet join Orange Is the New Black's Laverne Cox, who will play Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a role originally made famous by Tim Curry (Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, The Wild Thornberrys), in the upcoming remake.

The two-hour Fox special, due in fall 2016, will be directed, exec produced and choreographed by Kenny Ortega (High School Musical) and filmed in advance. Ortega, Gail Berman and Lou Adler, who produced the original film, are attached as exec producers. The new Rocky will be produced by Fox 21 Television studios and Berman's The Jackal Group.

For the uninitiated, Frank-N-Furter is the self-described "sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania" and a scientist. The movie is a satire of sci-fi movies and horror B-movies and originally starred Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick as a couple who stumble upon Frank-N-Furter's odd castle in which he is creating a living man in his lab.

Following the success of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, O'Brien reunited with Rocky Horror Picture Show director Jim Sharman to make Shock Treatment, a stand-alone feature that was "It's not a sequel... it's not a prequel... it's an equal" to the original film.

Justice is also set to recur on Fox's freshman comedy Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life. McCartan currently recurs on Disney Channel's Liv and Maddie.

FOX's remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show follows the recent trend of TV musicals, from NBC's The Wiz, Peter Pan and The Sound of Music to FOX's upcoming Grease. However, unlike those productions, Rocky Horror will not be live.

Why can't Hollywood just leave great movies made in the 1970s/1980s alone?!

Two years after the all-female reboot of the beloved 1980s franchise arrived, original star Dan Aykroyd is now promising that a true Ghostbusters 3, starring the three surviving OG ‘busters, is on its way. Many thought the death of Harold Ramis, who played Egon Spengler, in 2014 had put paid to a proper reunion, but Aykroyd’s comments suggest that we can look forward to him teaming up with Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson in the near future.

While speaking on The Big Interview With Dan Rather, the man fans know as Dr. Ray Stantz, the heart of the Ghostbusters agreed with Rather’s wording that he was talking about making a “full-blown third Ghostbusters,” with an unknown writer already currently working on the script. Obviously, Aykroyd wouldn’t let on to anything about story details, but he did tease that it’ll try and recapture what worked so well about the original films while giving it a “21st century” twist.

“I think we got a story that’s gonna work. It’s being written by a really goo…

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If so, there's good news from the world of Gozer — there’s a new Ghostbusters movie in the works!

Entertainment Weekly has learned exclusively that Jason Reitman will direct and co-write an upcoming film set in the world that was saved decades previously by the proton pack-wearing working stiffs in the original 1984 movie, which was directed by his father, Ivan Reitman.

“I’ve always thought of myself as the first Ghostbusters fan, when I was a 6-year-old visiting the set. I wanted to make a movie for all the other fans,” Reitman says. “This is the next chapter in the original franchise. It is not a reboot. What happened in the ‘80s happened in the ‘80s, and this is set in the present day.”